Sunday, April 12, 2009

[Zack de la Rocha]They say that in war the truth be the first casualtySo I, dig in selector, I, the resurrectorFly my shit, sever your neck, wider than everWith my, tongue dipped in funk arsenicBurn this illusion, this lie with straight arson shitYour arsenal stripped, power ain't full jackets and clipsIt's, my ability to, define phenomenonal rawCrenshaw '84, Boogie Down beforeL.A. when the war break offWhere you be take off, stand-in full face offWith the M-1 millimeter, let the rhythm of the chamber hit 'emLet the rich play catch with 'emBetter yet make 'em, eat 'em and shit 'em'til they, so full of holes that they drown in their ownI'm like a, nail stuck in the wrist of they ChristmasDon't need radio, to leave they family a witness

[Zack de la Rocha]In this era where DJ's, behaveBe paid to be slaves, we raid airwaves, to be saneAnd, what's rainin, from the stationCash fascination, like livin dead fed agentsDistract us fast, from a disaster's wrath for sureAir war is flooded like the 9th WardOn the AM, on the AMTurn and face them, hatred and mayhemSlay them, dangerous, I take razor stepsIt's the swing from the bling, to the bang on the leftIt's the murderous return, boom bap full strapYour six that got clipped, you can't clap backWith minimal lift, and criminal flowI'm killin them soft and billin them for, everything stoleAnd once again I'm that nail in the wrist of they ChristmasWatch me make they family a witness~!

After 9/11 you could see that reframing taking place. The specter of Communism no longer haunted the U.S., justifying its actions in Latin America and all over the world. What filled that void were Al Qaeda and the Muslim world in general. That song is, in an abstract way, addressing the way the right has distracted people from this huge rush of wealth from the bottom to the top..“I don’t see [One Day as a Lion's first single Wild International] as an anti-religious song. I see it as the West has been using Christianity as a way to justify its actions when in reality, those figures, Christ and Muhammad, were rebels. These two religious figures have been co-opted to justify power, although they fought against the abuses of power and the expansion of empire.” — Zach de la Rocha,